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North Korea and China, mass irrationality
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North Korea and China deny basic scientific rationality
https://www.theguardian.com/co....mmentisfree/2022/may
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-61533715
President Biden with President Yoon Suk-yeol
We've offered vaccines, not only to North Korea but to China as well, and we're prepared to do that immediately
We've got no response
Declined offers from SK and others already, covax
Symptomatic cases, + 220,000 = 2.5 million people have been sickened by "fever"
Under treatment, 741,000
Medicines, oxygen, electricity, frequent blackouts, fridges
Deaths, 66
Nationwide lockdown
Claimed successfully kept Covid out by sealing borders
State media
Herbal tea, gargling salt-water, ibuprofen
Kim Jong-un, officials bungled distribution of national medicine reserves
Mobilised a million health workers, find people with fevers, quarantine
China
Dr. Michael Ryan
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/....wireStory/chinas-cov
We understand why the initial response of China was to try and suppress infections to the maximum level (but) that strategy is not sustainable
a suppression-only strategy is not a sustainable way to exit the pandemic for any country
Unchecked transmission, North Korea, Eritrea could spur the emergence of new variants
Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
zero-COVID, not sustainable
WHO is deeply concerned at the risk of further spread in North Korea,
Worrying numbers of people with underlying conditions
Has asked North Korea to share more data, no response
WHO had offered vaccines, medicines, tests and technical support, no response
UK
Britain reduces its Covid-19 alert level from four to three, Omicron-variant wave of the virus was subsiding.
Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 newly classified as variants of concern
ONS
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplep....opulationandcommunit
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